The Worst Collectors Editions you have ever seen

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I would definitely say virtually any CE from EA. They are cheap, tacky, and show no level of effort going into them - Often only including a downloadable extra for online multiplayer. The recent Medal Of Honor game is testament to this, where they even have the nerve to advertise it as a Limited Edition when it is in fact the only edition currently available to buy!

Need For Speed: Shift is perhaps the exception to the rule, which came in a rather fetching rubber tyre packaging, but pretty much most EA offerings are lame


Fable II also deserves a mention, simply due to the fact that we were promised so much, yet when release came around they had dropped almost every bonus and left us with a skeletal edition which virtually no better than the standard edition. Waste of time.

Originally Posted by gurpswoo1

Red dead redemption limited edition, just DLC codes with a slip cover.

What's more 6 weeks later the DLC codes were given out for free with every purchase of the normal game. What a joke this was.

Agreed! HMV and PLAY.com seem to be prime suspects in offering a lame standard edition with nothing more than an exclusive cardboard slipcover and a few downloadable codes and calling it a Special Edition or something similar. I don't know how they can get away with it to be honest! I have given up buying HMV exclusives, as they always seem to be just a standard edition with a cardboard cover slipped over the outer case